Life Lesson #36:  Your Comfort Zone = Your Success Zone. Your level of success in life is directly related to your ability to be open and embrace being uncomfortable.  Growth doesn’t happen anywhere else – it is always on the others side of the comfort zone. Growing up and early in my career I was…

Life Lesson #35:  Everything starts with your thoughts. Throughout the history of the spoken and written word everyone has basically come to the same overall conclusion:  You become what you think about. The long-term impact of your thoughts is critical to the results you have in life because it begins what is called the Empowerment…

Life Lesson #34:  Be a problem solver. It is easy in life to be a problem identifier – in fact, it sometimes feels like our society specializes in being able to point out what is wrong with this world – personally and professionally. What I have come to find is that the people who take…

Life Lesson #33:  Seek out and embrace feedback. Early in my career I was nervous – and in all reality at times – fearful of receiving feedback.  Part of it was my lack of confidence in myself, while the rest of it was my fear of rejection.  Anyone else ever deal with that?  🙂 What…

Life Lesson #32:  This too shall pass. One of the greatest and most inspirational books I have ever read is Og Mandino’s “The Greatest Salesman in the World” – it was first printed over 50 years ago and his wisdom still holds true as much today as it did then. One of the phrases he…